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... passed away . " The main part of the discussion upon Phalaris was from his pen . That upon Æsop was believed to be written by John Freind , and he was probably assisted in it by Alsop , who at that time was engaged on an edition of the ...
... passed away . " The main part of the discussion upon Phalaris was from his pen . That upon Æsop was believed to be written by John Freind , and he was probably assisted in it by Alsop , who at that time was engaged on an edition of the ...
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... passed before it was given to the public . About this time Bentley formed a club , or evening meeting , of a few friends , who were amongst the greatest intellectual characters that the history of mankind can produce : this society ...
... passed before it was given to the public . About this time Bentley formed a club , or evening meeting , of a few friends , who were amongst the greatest intellectual characters that the history of mankind can produce : this society ...
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... passed between Bentley and the bookseller , King was present , and being called upon by Boyle to bear part in the drama , performed it quite to the taste of " the bees . " He addressed a letter to DEAN ALDRICH , in which he gave one ...
... passed between Bentley and the bookseller , King was present , and being called upon by Boyle to bear part in the drama , performed it quite to the taste of " the bees . " He addressed a letter to DEAN ALDRICH , in which he gave one ...
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... passed the first five years of Bentley's mastership . Meanwhile , King William , whose merits as a deliverer were soon forgotten when it was found that a parliamentary king was rather more expensive than a jure divino monarch , had died ...
... passed the first five years of Bentley's mastership . Meanwhile , King William , whose merits as a deliverer were soon forgotten when it was found that a parliamentary king was rather more expensive than a jure divino monarch , had died ...
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... passing judgment arrived , he was himself called to the last assize , just one day before his sovereign lady - that truest friend of the English Church , who has given name to Queen Anne's Charity ; a charity , indeed , which , if there ...
... passing judgment arrived , he was himself called to the last assize , just one day before his sovereign lady - that truest friend of the English Church , who has given name to Queen Anne's Charity ; a charity , indeed , which , if there ...
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Page 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Page 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Page 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name!
Page 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Page 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Page 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
Page 455 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Page 289 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.